ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopia is launching a national initiative in schools this year to treat children at risk of infection from parasitic worms, mirroring a program in Kenya which has improved child health and school attendance, a charity involved said. Ethiopia aims to treat at least 80 percent of children at risk from parasitic
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This year’s prestigious Kochon Prize has been awarded to REACH ETHIOPIA, a collaboration including LSTM, at the 45th Union World Conference on Lung Health in Barcelona. It was presented to Dr Daniel Datiko, the Field Director for the project. The prize, which has been awarded annually since 2006 by the Stop TB Partnership, is presented
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World Bulletin / News Desk The Pan-African Medical Doctors and Healthcare Conference kicked off on Wednesday at African Union (A.U.) headquarters in Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa. The opening session was attended by A.U. Commission Chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, Ethiopian President Mulatu Teshome and Ethiopian Foreign Minister Tedros Adhanom. In his keynote speech, Teshome said the conference
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